If there are 1000 people willing to do the same for less then you are overpaid. You'll be crazy not to offer more for the same, accept less or move to a less saturated market.
... but hope that high skilled jobs remain in your turf.
Back on topic: when I learned programming a could not speak a full English sentence without mistakes. Hell, I still can't, nevertheless I can program in several computer languages and can make a living out of it if needed.
For call centre people proper English speaking skills may be an advantage, fro programeers English language is nice to have but necessary relevant.
One thing is cost, the other is price, and that is the full blody point for goodnes sake.
Cost is what you have to spend to make a product available to the public, nothing produced by human labour is costless. So in tha sense yes, you are managing to grasp part of the concept. IE costed MS a certain amount of money to produce it.
The product MSIE was free (as in beer), you as an user were not charged at all for using the product. MSIE was a product clearly diferentiated from the operating systems also produced by MS. MS bundled this later on with their OS to the point that one can't work without the other now. This was not a matter of clean design with engineering goals in mind. Tying your OS to a a task that clearly belong to user space is frankly daft from an engineering point of view. The best probe of this is a browser running in any UNIX or UNIXlike platform: browser dies, who cares, rest of system is fine, in Windows now browser dies, you may need to reboot because your UI may go dead as well denying you any control of the machine in question.
Has MSIE been included from the start with Windows you may have a point, but MS did not see the Internet coming and it was just by sheer business shrewdness tha they managed to jump into the rollercoaster, but they clearly missed the trend.
A monopoly can not use its dominance to pedal more of his products.
How can thick heads like yours grasp that idea? What other evidence of top of software compression (Stacker), browser (Netscape), Java (broken JAva VM machine) and now this do you need before you stop tht most stupidiest of excuses: the market hath spoken. Well, yes, chose head or tail, my secret is that the coin I am throwing has only two heads. That is your choice.
MS should and is not free to put whatever they want in the OS because they are hurting other companies given their monopolistic position.
What is fair game in a competitive market is forbidden in a monopolistic one.
What do MS needs to do for you to grasp that most basic of concepts? Start bundling games that can compete with the likes of EA and threteaning the PC manufacturers if they include games from other comapnies in the bundles they normally give first buyers? Database software? Proper graphics software (bye bye Photoshop?). Who is next on their radar.
How far does MS has to go before people that can't recognize a monopoly if it hits them in the face stop defending those practices as fair market competition?
Lets ask the Hollywood Film Academy or the Jury of the Cannes film festival what was the best software of the year.
I did not bother to read this thread, but I can almost see it: bands of nerds blabering about Lord of The RIngs and the Matrix, two overhyped projects that are only passable thanks to the lavish effects, without them they would be bare and identified by the lack of plot and general bad acting.
I did not know that discussion to reach a better conclussion about historical events was an Antiamerican activity, I guess we all have to fall in line with what the proganda minstery tell us to think.
When you USians make movies that murder historic accuracy and claim that you invented everything of any benefit for humanity it is good that you are reminded that even your greatest inventors stood in the shoulders of giants (my things decrypton of enigma machines, rolls eyse in despair).
Those giants are not necessarily born in the U.S. of A.
Specially here because Peter Pan, I mean, Parker, is one of US! He is a GEEK!
I was wiser than you: waited a few weeks aftwer the premiere, asked friends that saw it with a valuable opinion about movies, and avoided it like the plague.
I hate to break it to you, and will probably get modded down for saying so, but normal (i.e. non-geek) people do not want this.
Most people don't even know what quantum physics is -- hell, don't even know what physics is.
A bokk like this would be of very little appeal and I would imagine the library shelf hosting this book would start gathering dust and would be used only once every few months.
Basically, it's a waste of time -- the effort would be better spent doing something for the children.
... but all the signatories of the convention do, this includes most civilized countries (amongst them what some stupid politician called "old Europe" for example, but also "new Europe" and I believe even China).
I ingore if the US did sign(gut feeling: look at Guantanamo, gut says no, I may be mistaken).
The right to education means that there should not be impeded in any way. For example, the Taliban ban on girls education was against the girls human rights.
A country that would forbid parents educating their children at home and abolish public schools (leaving as the only option private, fee charging schools) would also violate the human rights of the children.
Unless somebody has been sleeping for 3 years and waiting for a prince or princess to wake them up with a kiss, how long has it been known that SCO's stuff is crapware? And how long has the legal fiaSCO going on?
All this did not happen all of the sudden, anybody in the unfortunate situation of using SCO stuff not having an exit strategy at this moment is grossly negligent.
I was not allowed with tools in planes circa 1993, in Mexico.
Picture my horror when in my first visit to the US I was left through all the way to international departures with nobody checking my hand luggage.
One year later I went to Europe (Germany, France) and I was submitted to the same standard security proceures back home in Mexico.
Second visit to the US circa 1995, same silly weirdness of we do not give a damn about security.
Last time I was in the US complete over reaction, stupid questions, exhaustive unnecessary checks (how many times did they need to check my hand luggage?).
Anyway, it seems preposterous and late and hindsight and what have you, just wanted to write this down.
I mean, the WMDs. And prove that they could have harmed the US (including Hwaii to make it easeir for you).
Then I will praise Mr Bush, I will even be willing to ignore he has made friends with the dictator in Pakistan and that the pals of his dad's chump, Mr. Cheiney (aka as the VP) at Hally Burton are charged inflated prices for the contracts in Iraq, oh, awarded without any public scrutiny.
It seems you have other reason to be sick you are blissfully ignoring.
If the US had any regard for international law they would have waited until an invasion was legal.
Back in the first Gulf war the US had the full support of all countries (since only the US had the logistical capability to make Iraq retreat) including France, Germany and all the Arab world.
If the US and UK have pursued the UN diplomatic route ther is no doubt they would have achieved the same end.
If the US will ignore the UN and stablish itself as its sole arbeiter then there is littele point about arguing legality since in a global dictatorship only what the dictator says counts.
My country lived under 70 years of dictatorship thanks to a US sponsored coup that ended with the assasination of our democratically elected President.
I am not well off, I was threathened by state police, my school had bullet holes, one relative of mine was harrased, all because we wanted free, fair elections.
The US has no lessons to teach others about democracy because we have fought in our own places to attain it. To assume tha the US is the only possible source of all wisdom and democratic values is untrue, patronizing and insulting.
The only present people fighting for democracy need is logistic support, not a full open invasion.
Full invasion by a foreign power makes all but impossible to re-stablish a credible democracy, in the other hand change brought about by the people themselves is more likely to bring a lasting more stable democracy.
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And Qt is made by Trolltech.
And Trolltech is part of the Canopy Group.
Which pulls SCO strings.
Do we need the threat of more lawsuits in the future?
They should all gather by burro and colect the manure to use it to make natural gas.
Yeah, it may teake three months from NY or Washington but hey, they should not be such hypocrates.
If there are 1000 people willing to do the same for less then you are overpaid. You'll be crazy not to offer more for the same, accept less or move to a less saturated market.
... but hope that high skilled jobs remain in your turf.
Back on topic: when I learned programming a could not speak a full English sentence without mistakes. Hell, I still can't, nevertheless I can program in several computer languages and can make a living out of it if needed.
For call centre people proper English speaking skills may be an advantage, fro programeers English language is nice to have but necessary relevant.
You sit back and watch, why should you root for anybody at all?
One thing is cost, the other is price, and that is the full blody point for goodnes sake.
Cost is what you have to spend to make a product available to the public, nothing produced by human labour is costless. So in tha sense yes, you are managing to grasp part of the concept. IE costed MS a certain amount of money to produce it.
The product MSIE was free (as in beer), you as an user were not charged at all for using the product. MSIE was a product clearly diferentiated from the operating systems also produced by MS. MS bundled this later on with their OS to the point that one can't work without the other now. This was not a matter of clean design with engineering goals in mind. Tying your OS to a a task that clearly belong to user space is frankly daft from an engineering point of view. The best probe of this is a browser running in any UNIX or UNIXlike platform: browser dies, who cares, rest of system is fine, in Windows now browser dies, you may need to reboot because your UI may go dead as well denying you any control of the machine in question.
Has MSIE been included from the start with Windows you may have a point, but MS did not see the Internet coming and it was just by sheer business shrewdness tha they managed to jump into the rollercoaster, but they clearly missed the trend.
A monopoly can not use its dominance to pedal more of his products.
How can thick heads like yours grasp that idea? What other evidence of top of software compression (Stacker), browser (Netscape), Java (broken JAva VM machine) and now this do you need before you stop tht most stupidiest of excuses: the market hath spoken. Well, yes, chose head or tail, my secret is that the coin I am throwing has only two heads. That is your choice.
MS should and is not free to put whatever they want in the OS because they are hurting other companies given their monopolistic position.
What is fair game in a competitive market is forbidden in a monopolistic one.
What do MS needs to do for you to grasp that most basic of concepts? Start bundling games that can compete with the likes of EA and threteaning the PC manufacturers if they include games from other comapnies in the bundles they normally give first buyers? Database software? Proper graphics software (bye bye Photoshop?). Who is next on their radar.
How far does MS has to go before people that can't recognize a monopoly if it hits them in the face stop defending those practices as fair market competition?
Lets ask the Hollywood Film Academy or the Jury of the Cannes film festival what was the best software of the year.
I did not bother to read this thread, but I can almost see it: bands of nerds blabering about Lord of The RIngs and the Matrix, two overhyped projects that are only passable thanks to the lavish effects, without them they would be bare and identified by the lack of plot and general bad acting.
If you read about the achievements of Santos Dumont you would see that they are as remarkable as the Wright Brothers'.
While they were catapulting their models, Santos Dumont's were taking off by their own means.
So as long as the accomplishment is fully and exactly described, nobody will have a problem to celebrate the achievements of anybody.
Humans have been flying longer than that.
I did not know that discussion to reach a better conclussion about historical events was an Antiamerican activity, I guess we all have to fall in line with what the proganda minstery tell us to think.
When you USians make movies that murder historic accuracy and claim that you invented everything of any benefit for humanity it is good that you are reminded that even your greatest inventors stood in the shoulders of giants (my things decrypton of enigma machines, rolls eyse in despair).
Those giants are not necessarily born in the U.S. of A.
Specially here because Peter Pan, I mean, Parker, is one of US! He is a GEEK!
I was wiser than you: waited a few weeks aftwer the premiere, asked friends that saw it with a valuable opinion about movies, and avoided it like the plague.
A bunch of idiots back then patented a memory cache.
I guess there is a bit of prior art there.
I ignore if that would count.
I installed or maintained 11 WORMs (Write Once, Read Many) devices for a goverment dependency in Mexico in 1993.
The disks looked indistinguishible from CDs and it would not suprise me if they were the same or very similar to a CD burner.
Who is going to pay for it?
I hate to break it to you, and will probably get modded down for saying so, but normal (i.e. non-geek) people do not want this.
Most people don't even know what quantum physics is -- hell, don't even know what physics is.
A bokk like this would be of very little appeal and I would imagine the library shelf hosting this book would start gathering dust and would be used only once every few months.
Basically, it's a waste of time -- the effort would be better spent doing something for the children.
Mode me up as insightful now please.
... but all the signatories of the convention do, this includes most civilized countries (amongst them what some stupid politician called "old Europe" for example, but also "new Europe" and I believe even China).
I ingore if the US did sign(gut feeling: look at Guantanamo, gut says no, I may be mistaken).
The right to education means that there should not be impeded in any way. For example, the Taliban ban on girls education was against the girls human rights.
A country that would forbid parents educating their children at home and abolish public schools (leaving as the only option private, fee charging schools) would also violate the human rights of the children.
Big sticker attached to CD: "library does not provide support, you borrow at your own risk and expense".
What else do a sensible borrower need to know?
... sounds like "hire a Great Elbonian gerbill trained as electrician", or something like that.
Unless somebody has been sleeping for 3 years and waiting for a prince or princess to wake them up with a kiss, how long has it been known that SCO's stuff is crapware? And how long has the legal fiaSCO going on?
All this did not happen all of the sudden, anybody in the unfortunate situation of using SCO stuff not having an exit strategy at this moment is grossly negligent.
I was not allowed with tools in planes circa 1993, in Mexico.
Picture my horror when in my first visit to the US I was left through all the way to international departures with nobody checking my hand luggage.
One year later I went to Europe (Germany, France) and I was submitted to the same standard security proceures back home in Mexico.
Second visit to the US circa 1995, same silly weirdness of we do not give a damn about security.
Last time I was in the US complete over reaction, stupid questions, exhaustive unnecessary checks (how many times did they need to check my hand luggage?).
Anyway, it seems preposterous and late and hindsight and what have you, just wanted to write this down.
... is how some people are competely uncapable to look at isolated things withing a broader context.
I mean, the WMDs. And prove that they could have harmed the US (including Hwaii to make it easeir for you).
Then I will praise Mr Bush, I will even be willing to ignore he has made friends with the dictator in Pakistan and that the pals of his dad's chump, Mr. Cheiney (aka as the VP) at Hally Burton are charged inflated prices for the contracts in Iraq, oh, awarded without any public scrutiny.
It seems you have other reason to be sick you are blissfully ignoring.
If the US had any regard for international law they would have waited until an invasion was legal.
Back in the first Gulf war the US had the full support of all countries (since only the US had the logistical capability to make Iraq retreat) including France, Germany and all the Arab world.
If the US and UK have pursued the UN diplomatic route ther is no doubt they would have achieved the same end.
If the US will ignore the UN and stablish itself as its sole arbeiter then there is littele point about arguing legality since in a global dictatorship only what the dictator says counts.
My country lived under 70 years of dictatorship thanks to a US sponsored coup that ended with the assasination of our democratically elected President.
I am not well off, I was threathened by state police, my school had bullet holes, one relative of mine was harrased, all because we wanted free, fair elections.
The US has no lessons to teach others about democracy because we have fought in our own places to attain it. To assume tha the US is the only possible source of all wisdom and democratic values is untrue, patronizing and insulting.
The only present people fighting for democracy need is logistic support, not a full open invasion.
Full invasion by a foreign power makes all but impossible to re-stablish a credible democracy, in the other hand change brought about by the people themselves is more likely to bring a lasting more stable democracy.